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Cabalion EN Avec Illustrat 7/2015 The value of peasant life Nay ā Ambhora, a village of displaced persons in central India Joël Cabalion , EHESS-CEIAS 1 “How can the countless interdependent aspects of this drama of existence and the art of existence torn to bits be explained and especially felt in the space of a few lines?” (Bourdieu 1961, 36; taken up in Bourdieu, Poupeau, and Discepolo 2002, 21) Abstract The displacement and resettlement of four villages are the focus of this article. They are located in the Nagpur district in Vidarbha, a region in the state of Maharashtra in central India. Twenty-five years ago, the construction of the Gosikhurd dam was undertaken in order to revitalize the agrarian economy of a region deemed to be “backwards” by the Indian authorities. If the peasant populations downstream from the structure would from that time onward have the benefit of permanent source of irrigation, the fact remains that its production involved the flooding of 93 villages and the displacement of over 83,000 people. What are these lives worth compared to the “public good”, “national interest” and the irrigation of 718 villages? When there is a plan to wipe a village off the map, what does the annihilation of the resources of the peasant world and the scattering of its former units involve? How is the feeling of injustice of these displaced peasants expressed? Supported by research that followed the state management of these forcibly-displaced persons over ten years, this article concentrates on the trajectory of the inhabitants of four former villages, which today are depopulated, to their current place of residence, the new village of Nay ā Ambhora. Key words : India – Maharashtra – forced displacements – new villages – peasantry 1 I wish to thank Vinod Chahande and Simon Borja without whom my field research and sociological analyses would not have had the same tenor. 1 7/2015 Although the Maharashtra state government authorized the Gosikhurd dam back in 1983, and federal authorization dates back to 1986 with the Central Water Commission (CWC), it was not until 1988 that the peasant populations affected actually learned of the existence to come, when Rajiv Gandhi, then-Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the start of works on the banks of the Wainganga River. Dating from the Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85) – the period during which the first economic liberalization reforms were begun under Indira Gandhi – the Gosikhurd dam was supposed to promote the modernization of irrigation systems as part of the Tribal Sub-Plan, the area benefitting being located in the Chandrapur district where many groups defined as “tribal" live, the majority of which are ethnic Gonds, making up approximately 20% of the population. In 1997, in order to speed up implementation of the projects in progress in the State and to improve their management, the Maharashtra government created five regional irrigation agencies to which full financial authority has been assigned. The Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (hereinafter VIDC) is the agency in charge of the Gosikhurd dam and the entirety of the irrigation projects located in this eastern region of the state. Although one of the four villages studied is still inhabited at the time of writing this document, three of them (including the main one) have now been relocated to a new village, Nay ā Ambhora. The displacements and resettlements were spread over a roughly five-year period, from 2008 to 2013, and thus are still topical for a handful of occasionally resistant families that are more often than not unable to leave and rebuild in a timely manner due to lack of resources. By concentrating on the restructuring of the living sites, this article presents “[translation] a fragment of broader studies” (a doctorate in sociology) on the post- displacement consequences and stresses that it is not simply “[translation] establishing the observation of the ruins and the inventory of the rubble” (Bourdieu 2008, 149). For the displaced to be able to come to terms with their own destiny, the political foundations of forced displacement philosophy must be understood and turned upside down in order to ask the question about the political conditions of a new destiny. Can the aggregation of disoriented, tossed about atoms, that above all 2 7/2015 are unequal in their positioning and trajectories, generate a new type of social unit? What is the meaning of the right to the village in the case of these displaced people? After presenting the magnitude of the losses affecting the villages of Ambhora Khurd, Maloda, Gadpayly and Ambhora Devasthan, I will turn my attention specifically to the litigation suits of the displaced persons, then to the rights and reasoning leading to the emergence of the new village. To address these various matters, I will present quantitative analyses and qualitative interviews 2. The quantitative analyses are based on a file consisting of 241 households (of a total of 372). The variables are both quantitative (ongoing) and qualitative, matching up with written official data such as verbal statements. They make it possible to take stock of the current social structure of the four villages (14 castes 3) and how the repercussions of displacement differ. Depeasantization As an historic and social process which marks all economic development, depeasantization reflects the crisis of social reproduction of the peasantry and the evolution of the social identities of its “heirs” (Champagne 2002, Bourdieu 2002). For its part, forced displacement accelerates a decapitalization process of the peasants. But what’s more, it causes a total disruption of the “traditional” forms of socialization and interdependencies of village life and its organization. This region’s agriculture (mainly rice and grains, also having some variety: legumes, peanuts, truck farming and orange groves), while not being sufficiently well-paying for most of the peasants, retained many advantages. Food security was necessarily based on a strong symbolic redistribution economy for the exchange of grains and various services in family networks. With the remnants of the traditional forms of the peasant moral economy, a significant amount of reciprocal exchange was still organized. Grains (or chilies) moreover made a significant volume of non-monetary exchanges possible for the payment of farm workers’ wages. Assessing the magnitude of the dual phenomenon 2 This research was a conducted independently in Hindi and Marathi. 3 In order of descending demographic importance: Teli, Kunbi, Sonar, Lodhi, Sutar, Mali, Gurao, Mahar, Dhiwar, Navhi, Lohar, Gond, Dhobi and Gowari. 3 7/2015 represented by the destruction of a village flooded out with its land is critical. In the villages investigated, while previously 31% of the population had no land, 72% of the population is now “depeasantized” (41% being the “new landless”). This proletarianization of the land structure does not just pose the question of employment and the peasant lifestyle, but in a more global manner results in the disarticulation of a practical system. Although there is some farmland available in the region, it is generally much too expensive for the displaced peasants. While the Maharashtra government is officially obligated to find some, this is a challenge for any so-called “development” project whatsoever in India today. The total farmland of the villages studied corresponds to approximately 680 hectares, of which 484 ha (i.e. 71%) are destined for flooding, not counting built up land. Land assessments and compensation to the villagers were spread out from 1995 to today, which has posed immense problems for the displaced due to the rise in the market price of land – often making any attempt to save one’s farming experience useless – but also due to the gradual dispersal of family cells into new household units. In daily living space, the peasant’s condition already appeared, from various perspectives, like a forced choice, or a poor choice, for many young heirs who were moreover aware of “non-employment” 4. Inspired by an awareness of the disparities honed by their contacts with urban society, a significant proportion of educated young people today value new trades and plans. Only a few large peasant families can claim to farm commercially, due to strong family units and a significant amount of land 5. Thanks to adequate reserves of capital, they can also support a market economy when others, without security, barely selling or selling with great difficulty, were increasingly dependent on the State and its 4 I am basing myself here on the distinction between unemployment and non-employment used by Castel 2009, 114, note 1. The village youth do not expect the re-establishment of a “[translation] balance between the supply and demand of employment”. 5 I refer the reader to the thesis from which this work arose for more in-depth explanations regarding the land size of the social inequalities and the “[translation] inequalities of replacement chances”. Cf. Cabalion 2013a. 4 7/2015 regulations to get by (administrative procedures to get a “Below Poverty Line” 6 card, subsidies that are as necessary as they are uncertain at the Fair Price Shop, etc.). Map 1: Maharashtra and the Gosikhurd dam 6 India’s poverty threshold is an economic indicator based on the per capita income long adjusted to daily caloric requirements. Getting a “poor person’s card” is supposed to provide access to various types economic assistance (mainly food but can also involve kerosene). 5 7/2015 6 7/2015 Marginal peasants and farm workers (permanent and seasonal) thus felt, at best, hope of seeing the State improve their condition, which they perceived in normal times as destined for stagnation, if not near to indebtedness. But with this normal time now being a thing of the past, the worst has to be thought and the despair lived with of not being able to survive in the face of the risk of impoverishment created by displacement (Cernea 2000).
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